ANDROPOV Actions Taken Against The Dissidents

Question 1

Under Andropov, the secret police carried out _____________________ of suspected dissidents

Answer 1

Surveillance and harassment

Question 2

How were intellectual dissidents treated under Andropov?

Answer 2

• Threatened with expulsion from their professional organisation
• Denied the ability to publish
• Dismissed from post
• Houses searched (any material, and apparatus that could be used to produce and spread it, confiscated)
• arrests

Question 3

What would an intellectual usually do if arrested?

Answer 3

They knew why they were arrested, so they claimed the status political prisoners of conscience and were separated from normal criminals

Question 4

What happens if you have the label of dissident (Andropov)?

Answer 4

MARKED OUT IN CIVILIAN LIFE

• discrimination at work
• failure to gain uni place
• continued surveillance and harassment

Question 5

How many political prisoners did Amnesty International estimate were in the USSR by the mid-1970s?

Answer 5

At most 10,000

Small, but not insignificant

Question 6

What did the new criminal code in 1960 do?

BUT…

Answer 6

• Abolished night time interrogations
• Limited KGB powers
  (Far more liberal than preceding arrangements)

BUT article 70 provided authorities with clear all powers of dealing with “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”

Question 7

Article 70 provided….?

Answer 7

authorities with clear all powers of dealing with “anti-soviet agitation and propaganda”

Question 8

What was the problem with the new 1960 criminal code?

When was this difficultly in application evident?

What diss this lead to?

Answer 8

You had to provide intent when making accusations

1966 trial of Andrei Sinyavsky ad Yuli Daniel (dissident writers)

A new article added that year (66) to drop the requirement

Question 9

What 1966 trial uncovered difficulties in the application of the 1960 new criminal code?

Answer 9

The trail of

Andrei Sinyavsky
and
Yuli Daniel

(Dissident writers)

Question 10

Who dealt with those arrested (Andropov)?

Why was this significant?

Answer 10

Court of justice

Proceedings kept: dissident groups could publicise their cases

Question 11

What was an important development in the treating of dissidents under Andropov that became common?

Answer 11

The use of psychiatric hospitals

Question 12

What did the politburo agree in 1967?

Answer 12

Vladimir Bukovsky (a leading dissident) be placed in “special mental hospital”

Question 13

If you’re sent to a psychiatric ward, you are __________ in the eyes of the public

Answer 13

Discredited

Question 14

Who ran the psychiatric wards (under Andropov)?

Answer 14

NKVD

Question 15

“Patients” weds held in psychiatric wards till they were “cured”— aka?

And if you refused?

Answer 15

Agreed to change views and opinions

“Treated” with electric shocks and drugs

Question 16

Zhores Medvedev (writer and scientist) sent to an institution for ________________.

Who else was sent to one for the same

Answer 16

“sluggish schizophrenia”

Natalya Gorbanevskaya- one of the editors for Chronicle of Current Events

Question 17

What were the conditions in psychiatric wards? (Andropov)

Answer 17

Overcrowded and unhygienic

Did little to help international reputation.

Question 18

Where were some troublesome academics sometimes sent to? (Andropov)

Answer 18

Out of the way places (internal exile)

Question 19

As a result of Andropov’s use of internal exile, where was there excellent academic work?

Answer 19

the Siberian division of the Academy of Sciences

Question 20

Where was Sakharov exiled to?

When?

What impact did this have?

Answer 20

Gorby (city closed for foreigners)

1980

Restricted means of communication

Question 21

If you continued to write critically of the regime under Andropov, what could happen to you?

An example?

Answer 21

Expulsed from the USSR

1974- Solzhenitsyn